JUNE 17TH, 2014 10:47
Volatile and emotional Scots will decide the referendum. Alistair Darling doesn’t know how to speak to them

That Gallagher chappie’s an nice example of just how rude Rule Britannia types can get. You know he really wants to have his man horse whip a few jockos in to line. Comical Cockers would transport the rest to the colonies. UKOK national anthem’s awful anyway. Its Wales that gives you goose bumps.

I’m sad enough to be able to tell you the whole plot of that episode, without watching it, and that the title was Lawson’s Last Stand. The guy from the Lyver Birds is Michael Angelis and Bodie saved the day as usual.

The great thing about Wing’s is finding out there are so many like minded people, who as a consequence of their experience have mostly arrived at a similar worldview to mine and want to debate and expand it.
So……Please tell me I am not the only one,who really thought the word’s to that tune were

God Bless Ma Auntie Jean she lives oan Glesga Green ect.

As I was too young to be up for the TV close down,this was the only version I had ever heard, mixed in with Aly Baly Bee ect and I couldn’t even say how old I was when the penny dropped.
If no one else can relate.
I will consider going for the Title…..(Village Idiot)

Despite living here since the end of ’98, broad Dundonian is still opaque to me (I’m frae Ayrshire you see). Had I realised it was Dundonesian I might have kenned it. Time was I could reliably tell if someone was speaking Malaysian vs Indonesian despite speaking neither language. I can say hello is several Poluynsian languages though. It was that sort of school. That one was in Auckland, NZ. Long way frae Stewarton.

He must have only got one take cos when he sings ‘Send her…’ he’s way off-key. He gets it back but the damage is done. It’s like Somewhere over the Rainbow. There’s a big jump from ‘some’ to ‘where’ it catches folk out.

Dave McEwan Hill @ 11.14
Well youse wir an aspirational lot…
We only hid …wan poky hat atween four ay us.
Though we also thanked F**K thir wir nay more ay us,when Ma grannie wisny there.
We would have thought we were rich wi a haulf a croon.

Valerie @ 11.26
Just makes you wonder how many different versions there actually are.
But for the record I would like to state…
I never believed for a second…
Ma Maw wiz a Millionaire (distinct lack of Eskimos in Glesga)

Worth watching, if only to see the old dude at 5.00 saying ‘I look at his face and I see him as a relative’. Oh really? Sadly, mister, I don’t think he views you quite the same way…and then, near the end, the faces of the weans, wide-eyed, taking it all in, so trusting, so innocent, so utterly and helplessly duped.

The telling aspect of that clip is how the others in the bar react to this spontaneous outburst of patriotism. Fairly representative I would guess, and the programme is probably well over 20 years old.

The irony in this seeking out of some dusty old hymn that would encapsulate ‘Merry Olde England’ is that England, specifically, has produced some of the greatest rock and pop music over the last 60 or so years. But no, the powers that be go looking for some fossilised piece of shit, infused no doubt with all kinds of triumphalist superiority.

Ian Brotherhood @ 12.21
I have often wondered what Liz The Last has to say about the Ludge.
I mean… “We will fight fur ye mam,we hiv flags an drums an everything,we even hiv sew’ed oor ain fancy uniforms and oor collar’s are already oan”.
Presumably Liz knows she already has an army so it begs the question would she struggle to choose?
Enquiring minds need to know.
How does anybody even start to comprehend that narritive,the Islander’s in the film at least can claim not to have been introduced to a 21 century mind set.

Michael White as usual writes nonsense. Doing himself out of a real job. The Guardian is under Cameron’s thumb. Since Cameron/Clegg put the Robocops in to trash the print room and threaten the Editor for telling the truth. The Editor was side lined and a suitable compliant, Oxbridge sycophant was installed. Guardian has been compliant to the pig face sucker psychopath, ever since. Protecting the guilty.

ScottieDog says:
2 March, 2016 at 9:12 am
Here’s a question (and no one asked me this during the indyref campaign)
What would make you STAY in the UK?

Actual devo-max. Not their spectacular historic The Vow fraud on the people of their Scottish region. Jon Oliver in the US has made a huge impact with his Donald Trump’s a fantastic giant liar but we have our own appalling line up of Project Fearing UKOK liars. Crash Gordon Brown’s in there at no 1 with his ghastly range of terrifying lies that he roared at Scots to vote no for, through the medium of the great liars at BBC vote SLabour Scotland and all the rest.

Is the Herald on the turn. A bunch of turncoats. Seeing how the land lies. How the dice is falling. Like the ‘little red hen’, jumping on the bandwagon before they go over the cliff with the rest of the lemming.

75% of Herald readers support Independence, even more support the SNP. The Herald insults it’s readers frequently, or just winds up clickbait.

Where did you get the idea that those you describe as, “True Brit”, are actually true Brits?

They are, one and all, descended from the Anglo-Saxon immigrants invited into Britain by the south Britons after the Romans left Roman Britain.

The true Brits are those who were the aboriginal Britons descended from the stone age Hunter/Gatherers and early farmers who mainly came from what we now call, “Doggerland”, that now lies under the North Sea.

These immigrants took over south Britain and were the first in a long line of immigrant elite rulers and some of them are still sitting as hereditary peers at Westminster.

Kinda spooky, but Michael Culver is the actor’s name, and to me, he is, and will forever be the Luftwaffe’s Major Brandt in the TV series about the Comet line, Secret Army. Excellent TV series, back in the day…. Makes the clip just a little more ironic….

I can’t think of many who see God save the Queen as an anthem that has connections with Scotland. I know the verse with Rebellious Scots To Crush in it was dropped but other than Rangers supporters and Orange men I think most Scots it as something from the past that has no place in a modern progressive Scotland.

Its merely rancid The Graun UKOK whiners taking offence at Sturgeon pointing out how Project Fear has ulitmatley failed. Rancid’s own hard core Britnat thuggery 2014 certainly exposed that bunch of liars and hypocrites to be nothing more or less than any of the UK tory press, when it really comes down to it.

On many occasions, rancid The Graun were actually far bigger thugs and bullies than even the Heil and Express goons.

Now they’ve won, Graun airbrushes their Scotland region out of their British news, not parochial or insular at all and they’d like to get back to be fine and noble progressive liberal journalists, like the BBC, not a pack of thugs.

I’ve said it before but Britain is a legacy of traditionalism, held together by fear and nepotism. Our Establishment consider themselves beneficent yet they resists modernity. The trouble is, we live in post-modern times. This is a recipe for Britain’s failure, IMHO.

Huge Better Together sign on her house during indyref. Flies an equally large union flag every day. Takes it down every night. Never worked a day in her life. Over privileged and under blessed in the cranial dept.

She parked in front of me and over someone’s drive. The back of her car is bedecked with every UKOK, BT, No Thanks sign you can think of.

I know her well. I gestured to her car and politely asked if this was her getting ready for indyref2. This was her reply in very loud RP.

I waited then calmly replied, ” At least you’re now accepting there is going to be another referendum.” Man, off she went again. People were stopping in the street to watch with jaws dropped, and to make matters worse, I had tears streaming down my face with laughter by this point.

She was becoming apoplectic so I thought I’d better back off a bit. Wiping my tears away I put my hand on her shoulder and told her “Look, I know you’re a history scholar. Do me a favour. Go to the library and get Amy Chua’s Day of Empire, and read about devolution in India 1920s to 40s, then read up on devolution in Norway, 1820s to 1905. Then come back and tell me if you can see a pattern forming. I’m telling you. As soon as we get even a whiff of diplomatic representation, the games up.”

She was silent by that point, so I told her how nice it was to see her again, and offered my warmest regards to her husband, and left. I hadn’t used the “I” word once. It made my day.

Sorry for the lengthy post, but I had to share this with you. It was like being in a very angry wind tunnel.

Progressive liberalism, joke right. These people are self delusional at best and Britnat fanatics in reality.
We live in a fascist state, the 14 tenets of fascism, listed at Rene.com( sorry can’t do links ) describe the UK to a tee.
Coordinated, same hymn sheet media, demonizing sections of the population, racism and flag waving militarism to name but a few. It’s all there in brittania wonderful ukok.

For me:
Replace Bank of England with Central UK bank with truly independent mandate to full employment. (Not to serve bankers)
Disbanding of the city of London corporation
Break up of banks
Abolish House of Lords
Stopping pillaging other countries for resources.
PR.

The pig faced sucker has been on the wine and pork. Alcoholics made bad decisions, without counselling and total abstinence. Lying through his teeth. What a PR performance. The Pantomine continues in the cess pit, lying, criminal Westminster. Corrupt to the core.

The Tories have banned Wind Turbines in England, reduced renewable investment, stopped producing Coal/Steel. They now all have to be imported. Putting up the balance of payment deficit and the debt. Costing jobs in Britain. Gas is being imported. Fracked Gas from other countries. £25Billion is being spent building a nuclear station beside the sea with borrowed money (Chinese/French) it is more expensive than renewables and other fuel sources in the UK, and produces less. A total waste of money putting the UK in more debt.

Germany in surplus puts a tax on fuel to lower wasteful consumption.

Cameron is still using RAF planes based at Lossiemouth to illegally bomb Syria, using taxpayers money without the Scottish Gov permission.

Those snooty looking Tories are such a turn off. They make people sick, sanctioning and starving vulnerable people. Worried, hungry vulnerable people don’t sleep and get sick. People are sleeping in bins.

Nice example of UKOK toryboy bullshit in action, from toryboy Westminster and its liar meeja, adblocks a racket.

So much for tory capitalism red in tooth and claw, free markets, dog eat dog profit is all, survival of the fittest. If the UKOK press is so good, charge us for their garbage. Ian UKOK Hyslop is always bragging about how makes loadsa Private Eye money by not giving his product away.

They could easily make their BBC mountain of crap subscribe only too, but they dont dare.

“Please Sir Toryboy, we at rancid The Graun are awfully progressive liberals what believe in the fundamental democratic freedom of info n shit, people wont buy our garbage though, so can you make them?

When I google Wings for an update, I am now presented
With a picture of the Rev in what looks like a
Protest march crowd. They then describe him
As a Video Game designer and former journalist for
That Industry and as being a Pro Indy Blogger?

I’d love to know why I am now taken to this
Picture and description. Someone has taken the
Trouble to add this in to google even though
My search is for the wings site, I get a picture
Of a protest march, a double reference to link
The Rev with Video games, and I reject the best
Political site on the planet being referred to as a
Blog.

Someone up to no good again.
There must be spare halos that could have
Been used in a picture of the Rev now that
Dim Jim Murphy is Fundimudily retired?

I remember my school geography Teacher, c 1967, explaining that Britain and Japan were the two biggest net exporters of manufactured goods in the World. The reason given was that both countries were over populated in terms of food production and needed to sell a surplus of manufactured goods in order to import enough to feed their populations.

Made perfect sense to me.

Since then, of course, the removal of barriers to international movement of capital, increased usage of money printing, invention of derivatives and general reduction in financial sector regulation has lead to a situation where the great London Casino, that shibboleth of spivvery, speculation, money laundering, corruption and tax evasion has grown into a monster.
Furthermore it has allowed some to believe, contrary to any cursory analysis of history, that the monster can live on indefinitely, providing more than enough GDP to replace any lost by manufacturing. We do not need to ‘bash metal’. Manufacturing? farming? pah! who needs it?

Aided by a post Cold War honeymoon period where the World appeared to have a stable future and in the UK’s case the windfall of hundreds of billions of North Sea oil revenue to add to the illusion, it seemed the experiment in neo liberalism was working.

Even though the pennies are starting to drop regarding the real danger of this since the banking crisis, The UK in European terms has still not managed to get itself out of the relegation zone in the European manufacturing league table.

Here is a composite chart I complied recently from Eurostat statistics which reveals the UK’s dire position re manufacturing output compounded by the worst %gdp record for equipment investment in the EU (so no sign any attempt is being made to improve things).

Effijy says:
2 March, 2016 at 1:58 pm
When I google Wings for an update,

Its all down to google. They are either placing most hit search find at the top of this search list via google. Or google are fiddling around with the code.

Obviously you will pay to get your site or news or product at or near the top of a google list. There are probably a whole host of different agencies monitoring what gets searched and they all pay google to do this for them.

Trident has to go. No illegal wars. A tax or minimum price for ‘loss leading’ alcohol. Stop paying £4Billion to the UK Treasury for money Scotland doesn’t borrow and spend.

Cut the illegal 60% Tax on the Oil sector, losing revenues and jobs. Tax should be in relationship to barrel price. Stop tax evasion by (foreign) multinations.

Invest in coal CCS and renewables – electric cars are four times cheaper to run. Invest in nurseries, smaller class sizes, education and health. Put in modules in addition needs in teacher training course. Put in modules on drink/drug addiction in Medical school courses. Put modules in mental health and addition needs, two separate issues, in Police training. Appoint a Head iof Police with knowledge of Scottish Law. How can they enforce the Law when they have no knowledge of the Law. 40% of arrests never go to court. Wasting time and money.

Stop children being abuse and it being covered up by the abusers. Establish proper counselling, total abstinence for drink/drug addiction.

Stop councils wasting £Milllions of taxpayers money on grotesque projects the majority do not want. Against the majority wishes and the public interest. Leaving the community in unnecessary future debt without a mandate. To spite the SNP. That is the mentality.

Osbourne is spending £70Billion on a railline HS2, with no business case, Not enough passengers. It will have to be susidised with public money. It will make continuing journeys throughout the UK take longer. People will have to disembark and get on another train. Instead of improving the rail line in the North of England and Scotland which have not been electrified. Making journey’s and connections faster.

I pass the new Forth bridge quite often, and I have to say, it really is starting to look very impressive. Must be a hell of a job working the cranes at the tops of the towers. Looks like the towers will be higher than the current road bridge.

The telling aspect of that clip is how the others in the bar react to this spontaneous outburst of patriotism. Fairly representative I would guess, and the programme is probably well over 20 years old.

“One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion”

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